Union Pacific will conduct the first phase of a railroad tie replacement project in Harris and Montgomery counties this week and next. The project could result in traffic delays and road ...
Bob Brawdy bbrawdy@tricityherald.com There’s a snag: The railroad is in disrepair. Thousands of ties have failed. Nearly 10 years ago, inspectors X-rayed all 43,437 ties. At the time ...
In 1977, just months after their first meeting, Fink and Mellon teamed up to launch Perma Treat, a Connecticut-based sawmill and pressure-treating plant specializing in railroad ties. In the early ...
If they are approved to abandon the railway, Gulf & Ohio will remove the railroad ties and donate the property, Legacy Parks shared. Laurel Falls Trail in the Smokies to close through 2026 for ...
It then did something that I have never seen before: it trotted along the tracks using the concrete railroad ties like stepping stones. Railroad ties are used for supporting steel rails, and they ...
TieTek structural composite railroad ties are a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly alternative to creosote-treated hardwood. Earlier this year, North American Technologies Group was ...
In December, it announced a six-year, one-million-tie contract from the Union Pacific Railroad valued at more than $55 million. About 87 percent of the content of its ties are recycled plastics ...
Editor's note: With the annual Steam Week celebration coming to Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah, we're reprising this article from the Traveler's archives. GOLDEN SPIKE NATIONAL ...
Despite the iconic image of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad that was sealed with a golden spike hammered into a laurel railroad tie, the closing weeks of the engineering feat were ...